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Provision Storage for Vmware

Jon_Nilsson — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:03:40 GMT

Hi.

I have stomble across a issue that i want to have some help with. Im trying to Provision Storage for Vmware using the wizard but System Manager dont let create a volume that is bigger than the smallest aggregate.

There are two aggregates, as you can see in the picture below. Im trying to create a 2T volume and System Manager says that it cant be bigger than the smallest aggregate.

If i try and do this with Create Volume it works. Is this some sort of bugg or is there a way around this?

Re: Provision Storage for Vmware

radek_kubka — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:47:06 GMT

it looks like a bug.

you can either create the volume & later present it as a datastore to VMware, or use the wizard, make 1.66TB volume & grow it later.

Regards,
Radek

Re: Provision Storage for Vmware

Jon_Nilsson — Fri, 03 May 2013 07:18:05 GMT

ofc can i make a small one and make it bigger. Its a good workaround. But is this a known problem?